| 100% | PERES | 5 | P.M. preceded and succeeded by Shamir |
| 47% | OBOTE | 5 | Uganda's President Milton ___, succeeded by Idi Amin in '71 and preceded by him in '80 |
| 45% | ATTLEE | 6 | Churchill preceded and succeeded him |
| 44% | DOING | 5 | Word that often precedes and succeeds "nothing" |
| 40% | WYE | 3 | Succeeding "Ex" and preceding "Zee" |
| 40% | LENO | 4 | Jay who both preceded and succeeded Conan O'Brien as "Tonight Show" host |
| 39% | OBRIEN | 6 | Leno succeeded and preceded him |
| 38% | WYE | 3 | Alphabet succeeding "Ex" and preceding "Zee" |
| 37% | RNA | 3 | Molecule preceded by m-, r-, or t- |
| 37% | WESHALLOVERCOME | 15 | Song sung by M.L.K. and others |
| 36% | SEAN | 4 | ___ John, fashion and lifestyle company started by P. Diddy |
| 35% | ZEN | 3 | "___ and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," book by Robert M. Pirsig |
| 35% | MAGNUM | 6 | Title P.I. played by Tom Selleck and Jay Hernandez |
| 35% | NBC | 3 | Network for "Chicago Fire," "Chicago P.D.," and "Chicago Med" |
| 35% | BARAK | 5 | P.M. between Netanyahu and Sharon |
| 35% | LDRS | 4 | P.M.'s and such: Abbr. |
| 35% | ATTLEE | 6 | P.M. after and before Churchill |
| 35% | SHARON | 6 | P.M. between Barak and Olmert |
| 35% | TRUDEAU | 7 | P.M. between Pearson and Clark |
| 35% | LEAF | 4 | Preceded by 1-, 9- and 65-Across, what each circled word literally suggests |
| 34% | AUNTS | 5 | Dahlia and Agatha, in the Jeeves novels by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 34% | THEBOYINTHE | 11 | & 22D 1924 novel by D H Lawrence and M L Skinner |
| 34% | WESTERNUS | 9 | Where M.S.T. and P.S.T. can be found |
| 34% | RABIN | 5 | Israeli P.M. after Shamir |
| 34% | SEQUENCE | 8 | When preceded by [the circled letters], progression starting with 0 and 1 |
| 33% | TWO | 3 | "___ Old Broads" (book about aging by Dr. M.E. Hecht and Whoopi Goldberg) |
| 33% | EDEN | 4 | British P.M. between Churchill and Macmillan |
| 33% | BARAK | 5 | Israeli P.M. between Netanyahu and Sharon |